r/whittling

Take the band-aid on my finger as a warning to always wear gloves if you’re a beginner.

1 gnome painted just waiting to dry brushing 2 more gnomes of diffrent style on the way

Interested in feedback on these concept designs. I think I'll shorten them a bit for better proportions. Pawn, rook, knight, bishop and king left to right.

Picked up the whittling hobby in january this year and been lurking on these subs since, seeing all of you making some seriously beautiful art!

Wanted to post some of mine:) From left is the very first one I did. Since then been watching some tutorials and learned alot. For every new piece I make I find a ‘flaw’ in and old one, and I take that as a sign im developing some more understanding of the hobby:)

Happy to be a part of this club and love seeing your work! Hope even more people will post their pieces 🙋‍♂️

I had my first accident this evening whilst whittling, as a newbie it’s a stern reminder to not try to run before you can walk, I took the gloves off because the ones I had just seems to restrict my hand too much.

Anyway heres the photo, I work on building sites so my partners told me it may need glued or stitched, I’m not sure but for now it just has a plaster 👀🤷‍♂️

Sometimes it feels like making a chess set is among these "everyone has to do one" projects in the community. But I'm stupid so I had to make it harder for myself.

Carved out of a bamboo barbecue skewer (3mm diameter) with a neodium magnet (2mm diameter) inserted in the base so it could be reasonably stable on a base including a hidden steel sheet.

Maple Spoon i carved as a gift for my stepfather. Made it in multiple sessions whenever i was sitting at my favourite spot by the river. Hope you guys like it, its size is debatable but i gifted him a tiny spoon before so now i want to slowly work my way up progressively. Also the first spoon i did, apart from the little one

Always wanted to whittle and thought I’d be pretty good! I think these little trinkets are coming along awesome! Let’s hear what yall think!

Advice welcomed

Pics 1-2: yup, it’s what it looks like. Played around with anatomy, no shame in my game lol

Pics 4-6: a little mushroom house. I forgot to sand before painting, and it accidentally fell over while the sealant was drying. Oh well, figured I’d share mistakes and all.

Pics 7-8: whittled a face out of a random piece of practice wood.

Finally gotten around to carve this one - very happy with the result!

Carved from chestnut, finished with Danish Oil.

Third week into whittling journey! (whittled every single day so far)

This is also my third "Salty Fisherman" based on the tutorial by Linker on YouTube.

I found a bunch of fisherman images and used that to sketch out some clothing ideas. My favourite was the blue dungarees, black jumper and orange gloves.

I struggled with the dungaree clips and beanie. But very happy with the carved out part when the dungarees meet the jumper at the waist. Also loving applying colour theory when painting them! 🥰🎨

Also love the zigzag hair on the back.

Moving onto scarecrows next. Looking forward to the challenge of carving straw texture.

Took my time on this one. My daughter is moving away and as a parting gift I made her this

I carved a bunch of these little succulents cactus from David young’s book “Whittling On the Go”

Today’s episode of The Modern Woodcarver Podcast I got the opportunity to sit down and have a conversation with David about his journey in wood carving, how he developed his style and creating his book. I had a lot of fun speaking with him about his journey!

I will leave the link below for anyone who is interested in checking it out!

how can I smooth out the inside? and where can I get bigger blocks of basswood for cheap? broke uni student

Hand carved from bass wood with X-acto knife and an engraving pen .